True strength lies in embracing your authentic self, and in recognizing that independence doesn’t mean isolation — it means being whole within, so you can show up fully for yourself and others.
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Be your own source of strength. Be wholly and powerfully you, so you don’t need to rely on anyone — especially your partner, spouse, or would-be lover.
Really? Why?
Are you trying to conform to a culturally accepted version of personal independence? Desperately toughening up, fostering resilience, grit, and stature?
But are you being authentic and honest with yourself about your fundamental needs?
Emotional needs are real. That doesn’t make you needy.
You are not a soulless machine. You are organic, a distinctive blend of aspects and imprints from across the universe. You are a sovereign spirit — an intensely focused individuation of eternal life, loved without question.
But right here, right now, you are an explorer. While it’s true that nothing can harm the greater you, there are plenty of volatile energies, malevolent entities, and nefarious agendas that feed off your occasional forgetting.
Thus, the erroneous belief that you must further isolate yourself to forge your personal power, identity, and emotional resilience may do you more harm than good.
Vulnerability is not a weakness.
Our society’s hero worship (and worship in general) is an insidious poison, a throwback to runaway masculine energies. We’re stumbling back toward balance. The greatest challenge today lies in dropping all false fronts and letting go of the massive weight we carry in feigning safety and security through sheer force of will.
Your deep truth, your essence — your creator substance — doesn’t care for pretense. It’s so watered down that all it does is smudge and blur your genuine tones and hues.
You are not alone. Not ever. Keep your heart open.
Solvitur ambulando